Bench: S.V.Gangapurwala Date of Decision: 5 May, 2017 Petitioners: Anjali Rajendra Indrale And… Respondents: The State Of Maharashtra Context The Government of Maharashtra passed a resolution on 2.12.2014 granting permission for schools to have additional divisions on non-grant basis from 2014-15. Petitioners wanted the resolution to be granted from 2010-11...

William Bentinck the then governor-general of India appointed William Adam to do a survey and report on the educational conditions in Bengal. On the basis of this survey, Adams submitted three reports between 1835 to 1838. All three reports documented the past and present conditions of the educational system particularly vernacular education and indigenous educati...

"Provisional list of papers on education in India 1808-54 This is a document that shows the issues (concerns) raised by various papers/reports presented in pre-colonial times (from 1808 to 1854) regarding education in India. These papers/minutes/reports have been written by many scholars like Lord Minto, Raja Ram Mohun Roy, W. Adam, etc. These are based on educa...

The second volume of the Calcutta University Commission Report primarily analyzed the existing state of education in 1919 Calcutta. In Chapter XIV of the Volume, the gaping chasm between men and women concerning the access to and quality of education, and the necessity to narrow that gap and determine means and ways to circumvent the bounds of a conservative Bengal...

This present statute was enacted to provide for the extension of primary education in Greater Bombay. This Act was brought into force to be a part of and to supplement the City of Bombay Municipal Act, 1888. It became operable on 13th December,1920 and has undergone several amendments to meet the demands of time. Primary Education herein means such education as is ...

The Madras University was reorganised as a result of the Act. It is necessary to reorganize the University of Madras to establish a teaching and residential university in Madras while allowing the university to maintain proper control over the quality of teaching provided by colleges that will form the University of Madras or be affiliated with it, whereas it is de...

It is necessary to alter the University of Madras Act of 1923. It amends the statutes, ordinances, and regulations in effect at the time of this Act's enactment and remains in effect until they are replaced by statutes, ordinances, or regulations enacted under the said Act. Under temporary circumstances, members of the Senate, Syndicate, and Academic Council who ha...

The act thereby established and incorporated a teaching and residential university at Annamalai Nagar,egulations, whichr with its purpose being the encouragement of higher education anstateearch in the State of Tamil Nadu for the advancement and disseminatIt specifies the various powers that the university may wield, such as the authority to confer degrees and othe...

The act regulates the payment of wages to specific classes of people employed in the industry without any wrongful deductions apart from what is mentioned in the act. The rights of the workers are also regulated. Clarification has been made regarding the payment of wages, the fixation of the pay period to not extend more than a month, and the method of payment of w...

The Act provided for the compulsory attendance of children at primary schools in the pre-Partition state of Punjab in British India. It received the assent of the Governor on February 25, 1941, and was published in the Government Gazette on March 3, 1941. The Act contains a total of four parts other than the Preamble. Part I details the title, commencement, and ...

This act was established in the pre-Independence era. It called for the provision of compulsory elementary education in areas under the jurisdiction of the provincial government. Chapter III of the Act called for the establishment of an elementary education fund and also provided for the assessment and provision of education taxes. It also defined the rate of levyi...

The act specifically discusses the first members and the powers of the university. It applies to all the University departments under Jaipur and its other institutions that come under it with few exceptions . The University is open to all regardless of sex, caste, class, creed, or race, with some exceptions to religious instruction. The president of India would be ...